Refined quicksort asymptotics

نویسنده

  • Ralph Neininger
چکیده

The complexity of the Quicksort algorithm is usually measured by the number of key comparisons used during its execution. When operating on a list of n data, permuted uniformly at random, the appropriately normalized complexity Yn is known to converge almost surely to a non-degenerate random limit Y. This assumes a natural embedding of all Yn on one probability space, e.g., via random binary search trees. In this note a central limit theorem for the error term in the latter almost sure convergence is shown:

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Random Struct. Algorithms

دوره 46  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015